"It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out of date."— Roger von Oech

"Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we know in order to find out what we do not know. Hence, to think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted."— George Kneller

"The essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail."— Edwin H. Land

"We shall not cease from exploration, and at the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."— T. S. Eliot

"Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction."— Picasso